Nicaragua

Violent Coup Fails In Nicaragua, US Continues Regime Change Efforts

July 21, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Educate! Anti-Imperialism, Nicaragua, US Regime Change

The violent coup in Nicaragua has failed. This does not mean the United States and oligarchs are giving up, but this phase of their effort to remove the government did not succeed. The coup exposed the alliances who are working with the United States to put in place a neoliberal government that is part of the US empire and serves the interests of the wealthy. People celebrated the failure of the coup but realize work needs to be done to protect the gains of the Sandinista revolution. A lesson for activists is that peace and justice advocates must be grounded in anti-imperialism and nonintervention by the United States.

Nicaragua Defeats The Not-So-Soft Coup

July 18, 2018 Stephen Sefton, Telesurtv.net Create! coup, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Nicaragua

On July 19, hundreds of thousands of people from across Nicaragua will converge on the capital Managua to celebrate the 39th anniversary of their historic 1979 defeat of the Somoza dictatorship. The event takes place as the authorities continue to liberate communities blockaded by roadblocks operated by armed opposition activists whose not-so-soft coup attempt against the Sandinista government, begun on April 18, has failed. Ever since April 21, when President Daniel Ortega called for a process of National Dialogue to peacefully resolve opposition demands, Nicaragua's political opposition and their allies have worked to sabotage talks for a negotiated solution. They have regularly staged extremely violent provocations falsely seeking to portray the government as being wholly responsible for the crisis and demanding President Ortega's resignation.

What’s Really Happening In Nicaragua; An Interview With Stephen Sefton

July 17, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG Radio. Podcast Daniel Ortega, Imperialism, Nicaragua, Regime Change

Violent protests have been going on since April of this year, forcing residents to stay indoors. While the corporate media and an army of online trolls have been making false claims about the Ortega government, the reality is exactly the opposite. We speak with Stephen Sefton, who lives in Nicaragua and is a founder of Tortilla con Sal. He names the names behind the violence and describes what is really happening. We also discuss recent news and upcoming events.

Correcting The Record: What Is Really Happening In Nicaragua?

July 10, 2018 Kevin Zeese and Nils McCune, Popular Resistance Educate! Nicaragua, Regime Change

There is a great deal of false and inaccurate information about Nicaragua in the media. Even on the left, some have simply repeated the dubious claims of CNN and Nicaragua's oligarchic media to support the removal of President Ortega. The narrative of nonviolent protesters versus anti-riot squads and pro-government paramilitaries has not been questioned by international media. This article seeks to correct the record, describe what is happening in Nicaragua and why. As we write this, the coup seems to be failing, people have rallied for peace (as this massive march for peace held Saturday, July 7 showed) and the truth is coming out (e.g., the weapons cache discovered in a Catholic Church on July 9th).

Nicaragua: The Art Of Demonstrating

July 5, 2018 By Alex Anfruns, Investigaction.net Educate! Class Struggle, Latin America, Nicaragua, Terrorism

It was a pension reform project that started the fire. To avoid privatizing social security as recommended by the IMF, the government wanted to increase contributions for both workers and employers. Faced with a public outcry, the government backtracked and withdrew its reform plan. But the protests continued without anyone being able to understand what was their objective. In order to stop the cycle of violence, government spokesmen called on the protesters to participate in peace commissions. They insisted on their willingness to listen to the various demands and to promote the expression of political opposition. To no avail. Calls for dialogue from the government have been shunned. They were even perceived as a sign of weakness, galvanizing the young protesters of the M-19 movement. With no program, this movement simply calls for overthrowing the “dictatorship” accused of being at the origin of the “repression”.

What’s Happening In Nicaragua?

July 4, 2018 Staff, Task Force On The Americas Educate! Nicaragua, US Regime Change

On April 18 things suddenly changed dramatically. Triggered by a minor adjustment to the social security program, which was designed to avoid austerity measures promoted by big business and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), violence broke out across Nicaragua. Incongruously, the opposition was led by students from private universities, who had little material interest in old age pensions, and by right wing elements that favored draconian cuts in social welfare programs. Despite the government rescinding the adjustment and its attempts to meet with the opposition and negotiate a settlement, the violence has escalated with a death toll of over 200.

The Regime Change Toolbox Of The United States

July 1, 2018 By Barbara Koeppel, Truthdig Educate! Iran, Nicaragua, US Regime Change, Venezuela

Regime change here, regime change there. Officials argue for or against it and the press and media routinely report on it. There are good guys (the U.S. and its current allies) and bad ones. Although the list shifts—today North Korea is trustworthy, Canada is not—one thing is unchanged: Regime change is a basic part of the American toolbox. Not surprisingly, mainstream voices don’t mention that regime change pushed by one country against another is illegal. These laws are, of course, ignored. Since the end of the 19th century, when the U.S. embarked on empire, it has, one way or another, overthrown almost all the governments it didn’t like.

Nicaragua’s Paramilitary Opposition Wages Intimidation And Media Terror Campaign

June 24, 2018 By Tortilla Con Sal, Mintpress News Educate! Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua, Regime Change

Nicaragua’s opposition paramilitary intimidation and media terror campaign have brought fear, insecurity, and hardship to around 30 of Nicaragua’s 153 municipalities. Only President Daniel Ortega’s commitment to peace has prevented an even worse conflict. Almost as disturbing as the extreme sadism of the opposition paramilitaries in Nicaragua is how their supporters and media displace opposition crimes by attributing them to the government. On June 14th Nicaragua’s Commission for Truth Peace and Justice, sworn in by the country’s National Assembly, reported 168 people dead and over 2100 injured.

NED Boasts Of ‘Laying the Groundwork For Nicaraguan Insurrection’

June 21, 2018 Max Blumenthal, The Gray Zone Educate! Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua, US Regime Change

As Nicaraguan student protest leaders meet with neoconservatives in Washington, DC, a publication funded by the US government’s regime change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), boasts of spending millions of dollars “laying the groundwork for insurrection” against Daniel Ortega. The Nicaraguan students’ junket to Washington was paid for by Freedom House, a US government-funded NED partner whose agenda typically aligns with the neoconservative wing of the American foreign policy establishment. Freedom House crafted an itinerary for the students that culminated with a photo-op with some of the most hawkish Republicans in Washington: Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Nicaragua’s Crisis – The Latest Stage In A Permanent War

June 20, 2018 By Tortilla Con Sal, Telesurtv.net Educate! Latin America, Nicaragua, Wars and Militarism

The US & Nicaragua: A Case Study In Historical Amnesia & Blindness

June 16, 2018 Dan Kovalik, Counterpunch.org Educate! CIA, Class Struggle, History, Nicaragua

I was stunned the other day to see an opinion piece by Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe in which he was portraying the violent anti-government protests in Nicaragua as some kind of revolutionary insurrection. What is surprising about Kinzer’s position is that he is the individual who wrote the wonderful book, All The Shah’s Men– one of the essential readings about the CIA-backed coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran in 1953. What is happening in Nicaragua right now looks a lot like what happened in Iran during this coup, and yet, Kinzer somehow does not see this. In this way, Kinzer typifies the utter confusion of so many in this country — including those who should know better, such as many self-described leftists — about what is happening in Nicaragua and in Latin America generally.

Nicaragua : Defeating The Soft Coup

June 16, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! coup, Latin America, Nicaragua, Regime Change

The government strategy has been to accept extraordinary levels of opposition violence and intimidation so as to allow the opposition to discredit themselves with public opinion. Nicaragua has been a good example of how Western corporate and alternative news media are able to create a custom-made bizarro-world to suit the propaganda requirements of their countries’ elites. The current media onslaught against Nicaragua uses the whole toolbox of propaganda tricks portraying aggressors as victims, reporting non-existent massacres of peacefully protesting students, denying systematic destruction by opposition paramilitaries of public property and private businesses, even omitting attacks on hospitals and ambulances. The big fundamental fiction has been that a majority of people in Nicaragua reject the Sandinista government led by President Daniel Ortega.

Open Letter to Amnesty International by a Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience

June 14, 2018 By Camilo E. Mejia, Latin America in Movement Educate! Nicaragua, Propaganda, US Regime Change

Nicaragua’s close ties with Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and especially China, with whom the country signed a contract to build a canal, the other main reason the United States is after the Sandinistas, is Nicaragua’s highly successful economic model, which represents an existential threat to the neoliberal economic order imposed by the U.S. and its allies. Despite always being among the poorest nations in the American continent and the world, Nicaragua has managed, since Ortega returned to power in 2007, to cut poverty by three quarters. Prior to the protests in April, the country’s economy sustained a steady annual economic growth of about 5% for several years, and the country had the third fastest-growing economy in Latin America, and was one of the safest nations in the region. The government’s infrastructural upgrades have facilitated trade among Nicaragua’s poorest citizens; they have created universal access to education: primary, secondary, and university; there are programs on land, housing, nutrition, and more; the healthcare system, while modest, is not only excellent but accessible to everyone.

US Latin American Regime-Change Tour Now Playing Nicaragua

June 11, 2018 Whitney Webb, Mintpress News. Educate! Nicaragua, Regime Change, US Imperialism

Managua, Nicaragua - For over seven weeks, events in Nicaragua have devolved into an increasingly common scenario for leaders who find themselves at odds with Washington: the country’s president, Daniel Ortega, stands accused of “killing his own people” after authorities have used “lethal force” in quelling recent protests. The unrest, which has resulted in the deaths of more than 110 people, has brought increasing pressure on Ortega’s government, as the United Nations, establishment human rights groups such as Amnesty International, and the U.S.-dominated Organization of American States (OAS) have come out in support of the political opposition amid Ortega’s “repression” of domestic dissent.

Letter From Nicaragua: A Catastrophic Well-Orchestrated Event Is Occurring

June 10, 2018 Barbara Moore, Popular Resistance Educate! coup, Nicaragua, US Regime Change

I am completely certain that this is a coup d’etat and given the present state of things, I am not surprised the Ortega’s have been left somewhat stunned. With mobs roaming the street wielding knives and mortars I do not blame them for constructing a barrier. With the dialogue abandoned, the Truth Commission rejected, the international community failing to be at all constructive, they are in a tight spot... What does surprise me is that few seem to see this catastrophe for the well-orchestrated event which in my opinion it so clearly is. I would not even say the US is the primary backer of the events, they are just there in the background. It is the right-wing within Nicaragua with a level of antipathy toward the Ortegas that cannot be overstated who have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

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